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"There, it's all for you, and I wish you knew how happy I am to give it to you safe at last." Before Jessie could reply there was a knock at the door. Mrs Judson went to open it. "Miss Flamank cannot see you," Jessie heard her say. "She never sent that message," exclaimed Dick Bracewell, brushing by her and entering the room.
All discipline was lost, each man, regardless of the rest, thinking only how he could secure his own safety." Captain Flamank then gave Jessie a full account of the occurrences of which Peter had already told her. "The years spent on that lone island, especially after the death of my two companions, were indeed sad ones," he continued.
"All things are possible with God, ma'am; He orders all for the best; we should trust Him," answered Jessie, gently. Scarcely had she reached home, when a young sailor, whom she at once recognised as Peter Puddle, hurried up to the door. "Oh, Miss Flamank, I am so glad to find you!" he exclaimed eagerly; "I have been twice to the house, and was afraid that you had left it. May I come in?"
They neither of them again went to sea, Ralph having been appointed to the coastguard, in which service he obtained a situation for Jacob Crane; while Captain Flamank enjoyed an ample competency from the treasure he had brought home in the Hope. Of that vessel, which the captain purchased, honest Peter, in the course of a few years, obtained the command.
With the aid of the friends of other officers of the Falcon, a fine brig, the Hope, was chartered and quickly fitted out, Captain Flamank taking the command of her, with Peter as one of his mates. A picked crew having been easily obtained, she sailed on her long voyage.
"I had always heard say, what you thought also, that your father, Captain Flamank, perished at sea; now I've got to tell you that he didn't, for I've seen him, and he is alive and well, and he sent me on to tell you that he would be with you soon." "My father alive!" ejaculated Jessie. Is she to be blamed if she felt disappointed at hearing his name instead of Ralph's as she had expected?
"I pray for your sake, my child, that he may be," said Captain Flamank. "Such scenes as took place when I was wrecked in the privateer are not likely to have occurred on board a well-disciplined man-of-war. After again, as I have described, narrowly escaping shipwreck, I began to hope that the time when I should be free and able to return to England was approaching.
"I thought, Miss Flamank, that you'd have known me," he said at length; "I've never forgotten you and your kindness to me. Don't you remember Peter Puddle?" "Oh! yes, yes; indeed I do," exclaimed Jessie, putting out her hand. "And is the Amity not lost? Is Captain Mudge still alive?" Peter shook his head. "I wish I could say there was any chance of that," he answered.
Her heart sickened, her cheeks grew pale. Again Dame Judson was the bearer of bad tidings. "She didn't wish to alarm Miss Flamank, not she, but she had heard a report that one of his Majesty's ships had been lost in the Indian seas with all hands, and she was greatly afraid that it might be the Falcon.
Jessie was very anxious to repeat what she had heard to her friend Mrs Chandos, and Captain Flamank consented to accompany her to the house of that lady. What mother could listen to such a narrative without the hope arising that her son might be among those who had escaped? Colonel Chandos, though less sanguine than his wife, was willing to make every effort necessary to ascertain the truth.
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